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[muh-lat-oh, -lah-toh, myoo-]

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noun, plural mu·lat·toes, mu·lat·tos.

the offspring of one white parent and one black parent: not in technical use.

a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and caucasian.

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of a light-brown color.

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Origin:
1585–95; < Spanish mulato young mule, equivalent to mul(o) mule¹ + -ato of unclear orig.

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It is, regardless of all hysterical protestations of those who would have it otherwise, incontestably mulatto.

Other than that its people have been exploited and robbed blind by its own mulatto minority ruling caste.

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mulatto (mjuːˈlætəʊ)

—n , pl -tos, -toes
1.	a person having one Black and one White parent

—*adj*
2.	of a light brown colour

[C16: from Spanish mulato young mule, variant of mulomule¹]

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mulatto

1595, from Sp. or Port. mulato "of mixed breed," lit. "young mule," from mulo "mule," from L. mulus (fem. mula) "mule," possibly in allusion to hybrid origin of mules. Fem. mulatta is attested from 1622.

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"The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return."

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